Dr Shriram Nene is a cardiovascular and Thoracic surgeon, a healthcare innovator, a Bollywood film producer, a health and wellness social media influencer, and an Edu tech pioneer, currently residing in Mumbai, India.
Born in London and raised in the United States, Dr. Shriram Nene studied medicine and practised as a surgeon for almost 17 years. He returned to India in 2011 and started his entrepreneurial journey by co-founding RnM Moving Pictures and the world’s first gamified online dance academy, Dance With Madhuri along with his wife Madhuri Dixit Nene. Dr. Nene married the famous Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit on October 17, 1999, and have 2 children Arin and Ryan.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Nene lent a helping hand to the state Municipal Corporation to strategize and contain the virus. He also launched the health tech start-up called Pathfinder Health Services Pvt. Ltd. whose primary focus is to develop personalized precision healthcare journeys.
Early life and Education
Shriram Nene was born in 12th February 1967 in London, and raised in the United States. A son of Indian immigrants who had left India in 1962. At a very you age, he developed a passion for science and technology and was inspired by the classical renaissance thinkers and inventors like Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Edison, Franklin, Tesla, and Einstein, who could wear many hats and do it well.
The late 1970’s and early 1980’s were a time when Apple and Microsoft were fledgling start-ups and computers as tools were just coming into homes. During this period, he taught himself to program at the age of 13 on an Apple II and used these skills to create a computer software company producing products for real estate agents and educational purposes by the age of 15. He also taught other students how to program as the president of the school computer science club.
Shriram Nene attended Whitney High School, Cerritos in California. He subsequently went on to pursue a career in medicine, graduating from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1993. His initial journey was a quest to heal with a different kind of steel (not microchips), so he trained in General Surgery and did a Vascular Surgical Research Fellowship at the University of California in Los Angeles. He completed his training with a fellowship in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Florida. After completing his training, he was privileged to practice in Denver as a board certified Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon. In addition to routine coronary artery bypass cases, he specialized in mitral valve repair, endovascular aortic surgery, and was trained as a Da Vinci Robotic surgeon.
Career as a Surgeon (2002-2011)
After completing his MD, Shriram Nene joined the Division of General Surgery University of California, Los Angeles, California as an Intern. After striving hard, he slowly moved up the ladder to be a Fellow Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida in 2002. For the next decade Dr Shriram Nene was a Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgeon practising at Colorado. In 2010 he became the director of Cardiovascular Services, Skyridge Hospital Lone Tree, Colorado.
During these years Shriram Nene has been part of many discussion panels and presented a lot of presentations at various international forums. He also holds medical licences in India and United States. He is still part of the elite professional society membership like Indian Medical Association, American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, Fellow, Society of Thoracic Surgery and a few more.
Journey of an Entrepreneur
Despite having everything, Dr. Nene’s ambition to learn and heal the world was not being realized. In 2011, his journey came full circle, back to the land of his forefathers, to use his original computer talents and his knowledge of healthcare to scale the reach of medical care to 7 billion people on the planet. Along with his better half, Madhuri Dixit, they created RnM Moving Pictures in 2011 which is a platform-agnostic, digital media and content creation company. The premise was simple: all screens would converge and that the person who controlled the content would control everything. In 2013 he was also the Chief medical officer and seed investor on Goqii.com, wellness and wearable tech start-up. It just raised a Series B round and is raising a 75-million-dollar series C round.
He also started a Created Edutech platform, “Dance with Madhuri” in 2013 whose core idea was to help people learn dance from the masters, anywhere, anytime. Available on iOS, Android, the web, and DTH (Tata sky, Videocon, Dish, Airtel), as well as in schools. The company is ebidta positive and profitable since 2016 and is available in 206 countries.
Within healthcare, he was actively involved in the community trying to spur innovation in healthcare delivery. Ultimately it was to make a difference in the lives of others and improve the practice of medicine, worldwide, to international, evidence-based standards by empowering the patient and extending the doctor’s reach. Currently, Dr. Nene is developing a medical platform “Pathfinder Health Sciences”, committed to improving lifestyles and lifespans through precision, personalized health approaches using a combination of media, apps and wearable technology, and a smart services marketplace.